New Delhi: A team of “selectors” from Israel visited India last week and another senior delegation will leave for India next week to start the process of recruiting thousands of workers to be brought to the country to fill in the acute shortage faced by its construction industry, a senior executive at the Israel Builders … Read more
JERUSALEM: A team of “selectors” from Israel visited India last week and another senior delegation will leave for India next week to start the process of recruiting thousands of workers to be brought to the country to fill in the acute shortage faced by its construction industry, a senior executive at the Israel Builders Association … Read more
(Representative image) Chikkamagaluru: A 13-year-old girl died on Wednesday after she suffered a heart attack while walking to school in Karnataka’s Chikkamagaluru district. The girl was identified as 13-year-old Srusthi, a resident of Kesavalu Jogannanakere village in Mudigere taluk. Srusthi, a class 7 student, suddenly collapsed when she was on her way to the Daradahalli … Read more
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he believes India’s relations with Canada may have undergone “a tonal shift” in the days since the unsealing of a U.S. indictment alleging a conspiracy to murder a Sikh activist on American soil. The prime minister made the remarks in an end-of-year interview with the CBC’s Rosemary Barton. Indian Prime Minister Narendra … Read more
Mumbai: Domestic equities witnessed a second day of consolidation amid positive global cues on Tuesday. Nifty opened higher and touched new lifetime high of 21,505 before ending Tuesday with minor gains of 34 points (+0.2 per cent) at 21,453 levels, said Siddhartha Khemka, Head of Retail Research at Motilal Oswal Financial Services. The Sensex climbed … Read more
In what is being called an unprecedented attack on democracy, the Indian government suspended as many as 142 opposition lawmakers for protesting a security breach in parliament. Last week, the Indian parliament came under attack after at least two men intruded into the chamber and sprayed coloured gas while shouting slogans in the Lok Sabha, … Read more
NEW DELHI: The approaching consecration of the Ram mandir in Ayodhya loomed large over the meeting of the INDIA bloc here on Tuesday.Sources said many participants said BJP would hype up the temple’s inauguration with an intent to turn it into a theme for the 2024 elections.“They are making it appear as if January 22 … Read more
RAIPUR: Four tribal legislators, including three from the tribal Bastar region, are among the half-dozen legislators who took their oath as MLAs in Sanskrit on the first day of the inaugural session of the 90-member House, while several others pledged in Hindi and the local Chhattisgarhi dialect.While five BJP legislators took their oath in Sanskrit, … Read more
NEW DELHI: In the wake of the largest single-day expulsion of 78 members of Parliament from both Houses on Monday, setting a historic precedent in India’s parliamentary history, Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal expressed on Tuesday that the “mother of democracy has been orphaned.”Amidst an intense confrontation in both Houses involving Chairs, the Treasury, and … Read more
Honda Cars India on Saturday said its mid-sized Sports Utility Vehicle Elevate has crossed 20,000 sales mark since its launch in the domestic market in September this year. The new model accounted for over 50 per cent of total company sales in the last three months and has helped the company grow its sales by … Read more
